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Re: How important is a machine shop? - Not much at all
Posted by Matt Reiland at 05/18/2001 6:31 PM EST


Engineer on team #226 from Troy, Troy Athens and General Motors CRW.


In Reply to: Re: How important is a machine shop? - Not much at all
Posted by Gui Cavalcanti on 05/17/2001 5:01 PM EST:



Gui

Lathe is used to turn down a cylindical piece by spinning the work then moving a cutter into it, great for making shafts

Wire EDM is Electron/Electronic Discharge Machining and involves discharging electricity to remove material and it is used on high precision parts, gears being the perfect example

CNC is the ultimate cool tool, Computer numerical control, you take your parts designed in CAD, pop them into a cutter path planning software and let the machine make it in record time (The milling machine has stepper motors with encoders to follow positions kind of like a robot). Not only is it extremely accurate it is incredibly fast and you can make the same part over and over. I am saving to get my Smithy upgraded this summer which will make next years machining much more fun and cool

For CNC you definately don't need it but think about it: You make one side of wheel on a mill and it takes you say 6 Hours now you have to make 8 more and hopefully you get them all within a close tolerance. If you did have access to the CNC, you take a little extra time to get it in the computer then let the machine rip out as many as you want in about 30 minutes and they are all exactly the same. You can even put in patterns like turbine spokes that would drive a machinist insane trying to duplicate over and over.

Is a good machine shop necessary, NO, but it makes everything more accurate, faster, and lets you get closer to having a robot that looks like chief delphi's

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